I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.